Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid . |
| 2 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 3 | First , top scorer Dalien Atkinson missed the starting line-up after revolutionary oxygen chamber treatment failed to heal him in time to face his old club . |
| 4 | Each soul he devoured lanced him with anguish , torment . |
| 5 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 6 | The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-30s , refused point blank to be rescued . |
| 7 | The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-thirties , refused point blank to be rescued . |
| 8 | In view of the complaints of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the virulence of Leese 's propaganda , the government tried to silence him through recourse to the law . |
| 9 | It helped push him towards resignation . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
| 11 | But then I tried to seduce him with poetry . |
| 12 | I have n't spoken to Mr Boldwood since the autumn , when I promised to see him at Christmas , so I 'll have to go . |
| 13 | Mr Craxi , who had been unchallenged party leader for 16 years , four of them as prime minister , resigned on Thursday as judges moved to prosecute him in connection with a corruption scandal . |
| 14 | Lambert tried to douse him with wine . |
| 15 | President Brad Burnham says the amount of information FlashPort generates about a programme as it attempts to translate it from one platform to another has presented him with pricing and packaging issues . |
| 16 | Gloucester Crown Court heard that 24 year old Michael Jones headbutted and punched PC Kevin Frost as he tried to arrest him on suspicion of damaging a burger bar in Cheltenham . |
| 17 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |
| 18 | Two whole sizes bigger than his father Northern Dancer , Nijinsky has matched him at stud . |
| 19 | Only God 's intervention has saved him from death by stoning . |
| 20 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an offduty police Inspector David Cammish and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 21 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an off-duty police inspector , David Cammish , and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 22 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 23 | MIDDLESBROUGH defender Derek Whyte thanks his lucky stars that the English Premier League has licked him into shape for the toughest 90 minutes of his football life . |
| 24 | The author displays a perfect mastery of his subject ; his legendary library has helped him to single out a wealth of comparable material , and his practical knowledge of specific features of construction and style extends to such details as , for example , Riesener 's handmade steel screws . |
| 25 | But I learned about the problem that has dogged him from race one , and he confirmed to me : ‘ At the end of the season I 'll be having an operation . ’ |
| 26 | Now he was hopelessly confused and lost , and the fear he had extended himself to contain shook him from head to foot as they unstrapped him and stood him on his feet again . |
| 27 | Albert has scorned a stammer that he will tell you has got him into trouble on more than one occasion on the golf course ; and he emerged from brother Alfie 's shadow to partner his own Open champion — a player who at one time was reputed to throw a 5-iron almost as long as he could hit it , and who , it was told , sometimes sacked two caddies a week — to the prized claret jug . |
| 28 | Psychology has dissected him to death . |
| 29 | Well , Jenny needs to give him in writing what she wants to say . |
| 30 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |